A geologist's vibrant maps reveal how the Mississippi River has wandered across its valley, making it look like a colorful, ...

The river’s low levels have allowed people to walk on foot to Tower Rock, CNN has previously reported – an island in the middle of the Mississippi River south of St. Louis that is typically ...

The Mississippi River begins as a small, knee-deep river flowing out of Lake Itasca in northwestern Minnesota. At just 18 feet wide, it's easy to walk across. More: The Mississippi River is ...

Along the river between Bellevue and Clinton, Iowa, for example, forest cover dropped nearly 18% between 2010 and 2020, said Nathan De Jager, who researches the upper river’s floodplain forests ...

In the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley – the historic floodplain of the lower river – a 2020 study estimated that about 30% of today’s land cover is forest. It used to be continuous across ...

GPS-collared deer that crossed the Mississippi River 4 times leaves clue to his location 'That collar and that deer has been across the Mississippi River four times that we know of.

As the Mississippi River is one of the longest in the country, there is no one set answer. At the most shallow point, the river is only about 18 inches deep and about 20 feet across.